Exploratory Data Analysis Contracts in England

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Exploratory Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Exploratory Data Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 526 646
Rank change year-on-year +50 +120 +112
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis 9 16 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.043% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.050% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 4
10th Percentile £449 £388 £458
25th Percentile £479 £420 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £481
Median % change year-on-year - +3.90% -10.88%
75th Percentile £725 £538 £519
90th Percentile £784 £588 -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £481
% change year-on-year - +3.90% -7.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £21.50 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.00% - -
75th Percentile £21.75 £52.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £20.87 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -58.27% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Exploratory Data Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Exploratory Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Exploratory Data Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Data Analysis in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis in England.

Daily rate trend for Exploratory Data Analysis in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Exploratory Data Analysis in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis in England.

Hourly rate trend for Exploratory Data Analysis in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +29 5 £595 +19.00% 16
South West +46 1 £865 +92.22%
North of England - 1 £500 - 6
North West - 1 £500 - 6
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Exploratory Data Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
3 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (22.22%) Matillion
4 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Tableau
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Scientist
2 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Data Scientist
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Head of AI
4 1 (11.11%) Head of Data Science
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Pandas
1 2 (22.22%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (22.22%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Data Analysis
2 7 (77.78%) Machine Learning
3 6 (66.67%) Analytics
4 5 (55.56%) Data Science
5 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (33.33%) Data Collection
6 3 (33.33%) Data Validation
6 3 (33.33%) ETL
6 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
6 3 (33.33%) Validation
6 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
7 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics
7 2 (22.22%) Mathematics
7 2 (22.22%) Statistics
8 1 (11.11%) Agile
8 1 (11.11%) Applied Mathematics
8 1 (11.11%) Data Management
8 1 (11.11%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) R
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) Scala
3 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
4 1 (11.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Talend
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft